Tuesday, 17 January 2023

2023 Monthly Writing Workshops

 


Monthly Writing Workshops

Booranga Writers' Centre
CSU Campus
Building 410, Mambarra Drive
Wagga Wagga 

Location on map

 

 Places limited. Please adhere to current Covid-safe practices at these workshops.

RSVP director@booranga.com

We invite writers of all abilities, genres and interests to join us with a piece of writing you are working on, to workshop, develop and share with fellow writers. Please bring multiple copies (6 - 8) of the work to share around the table for editing purposes if you wish to share your work. These will be returned to you at the end of the workshop.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.

Booranga is a friendly environment to nurture your creative writing while enjoying the company of like-minded people of all ages and stages of their craft.


Workshop fees:
$10 for 2023 financial members
$15 for non-members 





Usually the Third Saturday of each month 

Proposed dates, subject to change


18 February: Regular workshop at Booranga, 2 - 4pm

18 March: Regular workshop at Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

22 April: Special Event with Jacquelene Pearson at Community Learning Space 1+2, Wagga Wagga City Library. Tickets

20 May: 
Booranga, 2 - 4pm with writer-in-residence John Stephenson

17 June: Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

22 July:  
Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

19 August: 
Booranga, 11.30am - 1.30pm with writer-in-residence Fiona Kelly MacGregor 

Fiona's Workshop topic will be ' Planning, Practice, Reading and Research. It's a good intro workshop which guides people into creating time, and timetables, and gets them to ask themselves what exactly they want to do and how they can affect it within their own individual circumstances. And it tackles ways to read and research that support specific projects.'


16 September: 
Booranga, 2 - 4pm with writer-in-residence Judith Beveridge

21 October:  
Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

18 November:  
Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 


Proposed dates, subject to change





Tuesday, 3 January 2023

2023 Competitions and Opportunities

 2023 Competitions and Opportunities

 

Submissions to fourW Anthology of New Writing  
Closes 30 June each year
All submissions to fourW are considered for the Booranga Literary Prizes
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Booranga Literary Prizes
The Booranga Prizes, of $500 each, are chosen from all submissions to fourW and are awarded to the best poem and the best short story submitted each year and are published in our annual anthology, fourW.
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CLOSING SOON

Penguin Literary Prize
Closes 12 December


Nan Tien Temple x SCWC Writers Residency
Closes 14 December


Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize   
Closes 15 December


Scenes from the Sage Age
Closes 15 December



Helen Ann Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Closes 18 December


Heroines Anthology
Closes 18 December

ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES


Australian Writers’ Centre Furious Fiction
First weekend of each season (March, June, September, December)
Writers have 55 hours to write a 500 words-or-fewer story to be in the running for $500. On the first Friday of every month, a new set of short story prompts will be revealed to guide writers.
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Baby Teeth Journal Submissions
Ongoing
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Big Issue
Contributor guidelines

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Emerging Refugee Artist Development Program
Ongoing


Eureka St Submissions
Ongoing


Fairlight Moderns - novella submissions
Currently seeking submissions of novella-length works in English from authors based anywhere in the world. We are particularly keen to publish work by new and emerging writers,
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Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc
Various competitions open throughout the year
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KSP 2023 Residency Program 
Various dates
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Light Horse Australia: Harry Chauvel Foundation
Help us build on online Light Horse Anthology
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Lighthouse Arts Residencies
Applications ongoing


Mona Magazine submissions
Ongoing


Rabbit Journal Submissions
Ongoing


Science Write Now Submissions
Ongoing


Sisters in Crime Australia Inc


Spread the Stories not the Virus
Ongoing
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The Moderate Review
Submissions Ongoing


The School Magazine
Ongoing submissions.
Writers, Illustrators, Comic Serial Creators, Cartoonists.


The Suburban Review
Various dates


Writing NSW
Regional Writers support
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Writing NSW Grants - Various
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